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This is part two of a series of basic configuration management for Saltstack for use in an Windows environment. In this guide we'll be covering the basics of setting up Salt Stack Windows minion on a test machine on Vagrant. Part 3 we will be diving into the meat and pushing some buttons automatically with the Salt Master. In order to create a test minion, we'll be using a Windows Server 2012 R2 vagrant image. https://app.vagrantup.com/mwrock/boxes/Windows2012R2 vagrant init mwrock/Windows2012R2 vagrant up  Once the machine is online you can login with vagrant / vagrant. The download for the salt minion can be found on https://repo.saltstack.com/#windows Or the direct link: https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-2017.7.2-Py2-AMD64-Setup.exe The Windows installer is straightforward - just enter the Master IP or Hostname for the Salt server. We're not going over the internet, so I entered the Private IP. If you use the default "hostname...

This is part one of a series of basic configuration management for Saltstack for use in an Windows environment. In this guide we'll be covering the basics of setting up Salt Stack Server with a test machine on Vagrant. It's important to note that the "master" server of Salt must be run on a Linux sever, with their being support for a ton of different operating systems as minions. Part 2 will descibe setting up a Windows minion. We'll be grabbing the recently updated generic Ubuntu 16.04 vagrant box as a starting point https://app.vagrantup.com/generic/boxes/ubuntu1604 Run the following commands to start this box: vagrant init generic/ubuntu1604 vagrant up Once the server is setup, you can SSH into the Linux server and login with vagrant with the password of vagrant . Using the bootstrap script, you can easily provision the Salt Master server https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/salt_bootstrap.html#salt-bootstrap There are a t...

This is the first foray into Configuration Management on Windows with Salt Stack. With Configuration management on Windows, I feel as the more I am getting ramped up on working with a development team, the more I understand the need for measurable, consistent and scripted changes. I am looking for the following things: Centralized management over the public Internet Reasonable cost per machine OR the ability to use the community / free edition for my tasks. Ability to work well with Windows IIS configuration Registry / File & User management Patch status evaluation and configuration Low agent footprint. I stumbled upon SaltStack after a co-worker recommended it. I had a hard time finding specific information related to my use case, but I dug into watching the following presentation. I'll be honest, after watching, I was completely lost - but it seemed like I was on the right path, so I thought I'd dig in. With the following series, I'll be digg...

If the service principal expires you may need to update the expiration by creating a new key.  In Visual Studio Team Services, the following error may be logged if the Service Principal key is expired:   Failed to check the resource group status. Error: Could not fetch access token for azure. Status code: 401, status message: Unauthorized. To fix, we can create a new key:   Login to the Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com Select Azure Active Directory   Select App Registrations from the sidebar   Search for the Service Principal Cl...